{"id":4239,"date":"2008-12-22T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2008-12-22T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:58:16","slug":"best-of-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4239","title":{"rendered":"Favs of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

This should be hard.<\/p>\n

Looking at my iTunes collection, I'm stunned to see how few new releases I bought in 2008. In alphabetical order:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Andrew Bird - Soldier On\n
  2. Beck - Modern Guilt\n
  3. Belle & Sebastian -BBC Sessions\n
  4. Black Keys - Attack And Release\n
  5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago\n
  6. Cassandra Wilson - Loverly\n
  7. Foxboro Hottubs - Stop Drop And Roll\n
  8. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals\n
  9. Marah - Angels Of Destruction\n
  10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular\n
  11. NiN - The Slip\n
  12. Robyn Hitchcock - Shadow Cat\n
  13. Sea & Cake - Car Alarm\n
  14. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash\n
  15. Tift Merritt - Another Country\n
  16. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell\n
  17. The Walkmen - You And Me\n<\/ol>\n

    And if I take out those I haven't really listened to enough to have a strong opinion about (or haven't listened to at all), that leaves:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Festival Thyme EP\n
    2. Andrew Bird - Soldier On\n
    3. Beck - Modern Guilt\n
    4. Black Keys - Attack And Release\n
    5. Cassandra Wilson - Loverly\n
    6. Marah - Angels Of Destruction\n
    7. Robyn Hitchcock - Shadow Cat\n
    8. Sea & Cake - Car Alarm\n
    9. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash\n
    10. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell\n<\/ol>\n

      \"Buying it and listening to it\" isn't much of an endorsement. So if I filter out things that I don't much care for, that leaves:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Andrew Bird - Soldier On\n
      2. Beck - Modern Guilt\n
      3. Black Keys - Attack And Release\n
      4. Cassandra Wilson - Loverly\n
      5. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell\n<\/ol>\n

        And if I rank them, I get:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Black Keys<\/a> - Attack And Release\n
        2. Tokyo Police Club<\/a> - Elephant Shell\n
        3. Beck<\/a> - Modern Guilt\n
        4. Cassandra Wilson - Loverly<\/a>\n
        5. Andrew Bird<\/a> - Soldier On\n<\/ol>\n

          And that's that. Not hard at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          This should be hard. Looking at my iTunes collection, I'm stunned to see how few new releases I bought in 2008. In alphabetical order: Andrew Bird - Soldier On Beck - Modern Guilt Belle & Sebastian -BBC Sessions Black Keys - Attack And Release Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Cassandra Wilson - Loverly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}